01 September 2023 , 10:07
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If you spend the day out with your young child or children, you'll no doubt have to find a place to change a nappy or two. If you're lucky, you'll find a nice and clean public toilet with an adequate changing station. It's important to find a safe space where you can retreat to.
However, as parents who've been out with their children might attest to - there are varying standards out there, and you might not always be so lucky. One fed-up dad, who claims to have seen too many bad nappy changing stations, shared a particularly bad example with the internet - and it had a serious flaw. He took a picture of the changing station, which was sloping to the side so badly a child would likely just slip right off.
It was sloping (Reddit)Taking to Reddit, the man shared a picture of the sloping changing station, with the caption: "Diaper changing station like this are way too common." He added: "Changing my baby's diapers is already tough with the added level of difficulty a downslope adds."
People in the comment section agreed that public toilets aren't always up to scratch, but one suggested the reason for it is that "people climb on them". Another said: "Either a larger child or just putting their stuff on it. The ones at work look exactly like this. I figured out it was because people were putting their heavy bags on them instead of the floor."
Another fumed: "I change my kid in the trunk of my car because of this bulls**t. And it sucks. Businesses literally lose my business just because I can't easily change a diaper in their store. Don't even get me started on that no changing table in men's rooms cr*p either."
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According to the law in the US, where this picture seems to have been taken, all publicly accessible federal buildings are required to have baby-changing facilities that are deemed to be safe. In 2018, the BABIES Act came into effect, which meant that federal buildings had to provide changing stations in men's and women's toilets.
In the UK, there are no specific legal requirements for provision of baby changing facilities. However, the British Toilet Association advises that for every 10,000 people using an area, there should be at least one unisex baby-changing facility.